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The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies — part of a push for new powers that comes as the coronavirus spreads through the United States.

Documents reviewed by POLITICO detail the department’s requests to lawmakers on a host of topics, including the statute of limitations, asylum and the way court hearings are conducted.

I mean, yeah, it's perfectly plausible, and we have to prevent this kind of stuff, but really... Not a single congress person has spoken up? How is Politico able to see them? They have to cough up more than just links to their other articles. And every other link I found goes to Politico... Even Rolling Stone "Magazine"!

Embedded 1.8-inch Zen PC: DFI Unveils Credit Card-Sized AMD Ryzen Board

DFI has announced what they consider the world’s smallest single-board computer (SBC) that uses an AMD Ryzen Embedded processor. The highly-integrated credit card-sized GHF51 motherboard can be used for a variety of applications that have to be small, yet offer capabilities as well as performance of a modern PC.

The DFI GHF51 1.8-inch platform carries AMD’s dual-core Ryzen Embedded R1000-series SoC with AMD Radeon Vega GPU featuring three compute units (192 stream processors) with hardware H.264, H.265, and VP9 decoding. The SoC can be paired with 2/4/8 GB of single-channel DDR4-3200 memory as well as 16/32/64 GB of eMMC storage. The SBC features one Mini PCIe slot for an add-in card, an 8-pin DIO header, two micro HDMI 1.4 outputs (4Kp30), one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C port, a GbE connector (controlled by the Intel I211AT or the I210IT chip), and an fTPM 2.0 chip.

No pricing. Like some of RasPi's recent competing boards, it doesn't have HDMI 2.0 so it can't output 4K @ 60 Hz without Display Stream Compression. The spec sheet lists the new 6-10 Watt Ryzen Embedded APUs along with the previous 12 Watt ones.

Also at Wccftech.

Make a hand sanitizer with 90 % alcohol.

Offer it in various colors and fragrances, just like any good hand sanitizer.

But your line of products has the fragrance and taste of popular alcoholic beverages. Each fragrance of your product is labelled with a name similar to the alcoholic beverage it smells/tastes like.

Make it safe for human consumption.

Don't market it as a beverage. It's not. Really. It's a hand sanitizer. It's very slightly a gel in consistency and viscosity.

It can be sold anywhere. Grocery stores. Convenience stores. Schools vending machines. Church parking lots.

But licensed and heavily regulated alcoholic beverage stores might not be able to sell it since it is definitely not an alcoholic beverage.

Nothing for anyone to get upset about. It's just hand sanitizer.

I mean, even Omar found love... enough to help throw the election. (word: he was pushed) She must not like Biden at all.

Shut down and ignore the stock markets. They are irrelevant to daily life. In fact we can take that money and put it to use for helping people that need it. There's enough there for the world over, right now, this second, just hit the button, and done, all that fundage is in a different folder.

Unfortunately they have been given a blank check, amounting to over 2 trillion, all at the drop of a hat, while we have to wait while congress bickers and babbles.

And still not even the slightest hint that people will lift a finger and vote them out. They'll just keep blaming the Russians

Edit:
There's over 30 trillion of "debt" in the stock market. Not exactly chump change. Freeze it right now! Before they can run off with it, like we are letting them do. That's the money to use. That's the government debt to cancel. And if we put an end to usury, we will gain much more than we lose.

Seriously. We need ethanol to make hand sanitizer. Please let normal people distill it. All the other ingredients are only needed in small amounts. I don't want to have to pay a gazzilion dollars for hand sanitizer because of excise taxes.

Plus how are people gonna entertain themselves at home during the coronavirus quarantine? Not my thing, but hey, I'm sure most people would support it.

Ask your politician if they support chemical deregulation.

SpaceX tweaks Starship's Super Heavy rocket booster as design continues to evolve

Height of the booster will now be 70 meters, up from 68 meters. That would match the entire height of Falcon 9 or Heavy.

According to Musk, the Super Heavy booster will be stretched by a steel ring or two, reaching a new height of ~70m (230 ft). In other words, Starship’s first stage alone will measure as tall as the entirety of a Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy rocket – first stage, second stage, and payload fairing included. Powered by up to 37 Raptor engines, a Super Heavy booster could produce more than ~90,000 kN (19,600,000 lbf) of thrust at liftoff – an incredible 12 times as much thrust as SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.

Starship, meanwhile, will be a beast of an orbital-class upper stage on its own, measuring at least 50m (165 ft) tall and weighing some 1350 metric tons (3 million lb) fully-fueled. Stacked on top of Super Heavy, a Starship ‘stack’ would reach a staggering 120m (395 ft) and weigh more than 5000 metric tons (11 million lb) once loaded with liquid oxygen and methane propellant.

There was talk of making Starship significantly taller and/or wider in the future. Making initial versions taller could help it get closer to the goal of taking 150 metric tons to LEO.

Sketching out a rough series of upgrades that could feasibly be made to the reusable spacecraft’s currently design, Musk thinks that Starship’s conical tank domes (and thus Super Heavy’s, too) could be flattened. That might allow an extra ~3m (10 ft) of propellant tank space to be squeezed into the same 50m Starship length, improving performance by simply using the vehicle’s fixed volume more efficiently.

Thinking of COVID-19. I am reminded of an episode with medical insurance company about a year ago. It's about one specific drug that I take for arthritis. (a drug that makes me somewhat immune compromised but not sarcasm compromised)

They stopped shipping it to me in 90 day supply. I had to start getting it in 28 day supply -- and from a "specialty" pharmacy. "specialty" usually means for a drug that is ultra fantastically expensive and/or needs special handling, refrigeration, cannot be beamed by transporter, or all of the above and more.

Instead of the usual 90 day bottle, it now comes in special packaging with all kinds of special scary warnings. WARNING - CYTOTOXIC COMPOUND! Don't touch it with your fingers, etc. (how do they think I've been swallowing it once a week for the last 13 years?) My wife definitely wanted to keep some of that packaging and photograph it. Use it for things she sent to friends, etc.

So I called them and asked why can't this be filled the way it has always been? But no real answer. They did send me to the specialty pharmacy. Those people had a lot of questions. The gist of it sounded like they think I have cancer. But I've been taking this drug for over 13 years, I tell them. Really? They are a bit astonished. Yes, for arthritis. My arthritis specialist and I know that is off label use, but it is sometimes used this way. And it is effective. (and anything to not take, or take less hydrocodone is good IMO)

It suddenly dawns on me. They think if I'm dying of cancer, I might not be around for 28 days, let alone 90 days. So why ship a 90 day supply of what was a very inexpensive generic drug. I assure them I've really been taking this drug more than 13 years and intend to keep taking it for a long time.

Then I notice it starts coming from the regular pharmacy again, in 90 day supply. No scary warnings or frightening packaging. My doctor never had mentioned handling or touching this drug in any special way different than any other pill that I take. And I'm the only one that handles or touches it.

If you haven't guessed, it's Methotrexate. And it is cheap.

Edit: thinking about it, this may be more about the pharmacy than the medical insurance. Insurance has an incentive to keep things cheap.

Hollywood Could Take $20 Billion Hit From Coronavirus Impact

Universal Making ‘Invisible Man’, ‘The Hunt’ & ‘Emma’ Available In Home On Friday As Exhibition Braces For Shutdown; ‘Trolls’ Sequel To Hit Cinemas & VOD Easter Weekend

A studio has given in to the coronavirus and will make several movies available on your favorite illicit/piracy platforms.

The best way to beat cancer is to change the brand of cigarette that you smoke.

What does that mean?

It means that you can only defeat Donald Trump in November if you choose as your nominee someone who reflects the flashing and magnificent orgy of surrender and compromise that is America, the greatest and last country on Earth

*j'abandonne*